Improvement in buttons



lama swag @tutti @ibitza JOHN A. SPOONER AND JOHN ELLERBY, OF- BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 99,365, dated Feb/mary 1, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern panying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1, represents acentral section of our improved but-ton.

Figure 2 is a pian view, partly vin sect-ion, of the same.- f

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new self-fastening button, which is to be applied to gloves and other articles of wearing-apparel without the use of thread, and without injury tothe fabric to which it is secured.

Our invention consists in making the button of two parts, A and B, so constructed that the fabric may be secured between them, as hereinafter specified. The part A is a cap stamped out of sheet-metal, or other suitable material, a indicating the top and b the-dange thereof, the latter inclining slightly inward.

rlhe part B is somewhat smaller than A, but substantially of the same form, except that its ilange c is bent first inward and then outward at its edge, as shown. f

The button is fastened by placing the parts A and B on opposite sides of the fabric in such position that on forcing them together the fabric will be clamped or held between them, as shown in fig. 1. When applied to gloves, that part of the button which projects from the face may be so constructed 'as to admit'of the attachment of a chain or other analov gous fastening-device. i

The faces of the buttons may bev otherwise ornamented or plain, as desired.

` Having thus described our invention,

We claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A button made of two flanged parts, AB, which are connected by clamping the fabric between them, as set forth.

J OHN A. SPOONER.

JOHN ELLERBY. Witnesses Gao. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

